History

Question 1

How many toes total did eohippus have?

Answer 1

14

Source: Equine Science, Griffiths, p. 11

Question 2

List three of the five ancestral forms of the horse?

Answer 2

Eohippus, Mesohippus, Merchippus, Pliohippus, Equus

Source: Equine Science, Griffiths, p. 11

Question 3

Who was the Austrian monk to first work out the principles of how genetic material is transmitted from one generation to the next?

Answer 3

Gregor Mendel

Source: The Horse, Evans, p. 447

Question 4

Name the evolutionary stage of the horse that produced the first one-toed horse.

Answer 4

Pliohippus

Source: Horses and Horsemanship, Ensminger, p. 3 / Equine Science, Griffiths, p. 11

Question 5

Man had made various uses of the horse throughout the ages. The horse was hunted by Paleolithic man for what purpose?

Answer 5

Food

Source: Equine Science, Griffiths, p. 12 / Horses and Horsemanship, Ensminger, p. 8

Question 6

Which national army had the greatest number of horses in use during World War II?

Answer 6

Russia

Source: Horses and Horsemanship, Ensminger, p. 14

Question 7

What was the horse first used for?

Answer 7

A war machine

Source: Horse Science (National 4-H Council), p. 4

Question 8

In what year did quarter horse registration begin?

Answer 8

1940

Source: Horses and Horsemanship, Ensminger, p. 138

Question 9

What was the primary use of the “Chickasaw” horse by the East Coast Indians?

Answer 9

Pack animals

Source: The Horse, Evans, p. 8

Question 10

Name the 2 famous U.S. statesmen who were instrumental in introducing and breeding mules in this country.

Answer 10

George Washington, Henry Clay

Source: The Horse, Evans, p. 77

Question 11

By what year had the domestication of the horse spread to almost every part of Europe, Asia, and North Africa?

Answer 11

1000 B.C.

Source: The Horse, Evans, p. 6

Question 12

What proof do we have of what ancient horses were like?

Answer 12

Fossils

Source: The Horse, Evans, p. 4

Question 13

What was the first war machine?

Answer 13

The horse

Source: The Horse, Evans, p. 6 / Horse Science (National 4-H Council), p. 4

Question 14

When were horses introduced to the Olympic games?

Answer 14

1450 B.C.

Source: Horses and Horsemanship, Ensminger, p. 10

Question 15

What are the five major stages of the horse as it evolved?

Answer 15

Eohippus, Mesohippus, Merychippus, Pliohippus, Equus

Source: Equine Science, Griffiths, p. 9-10

Question 16

How many years ago was the Eohippus horse?

Answer 16

58 million years ago

Source: Equine Science, Griffiths, p. 9

Question 17

How many years ago was the Mesohippus horse?

Answer 17

38 million years ago

Source: Equine Science, Griffiths, p. 9

Question 18

How many years ago was the Merychippus horse?

Answer 18

28 million years ago

Source: Equine Science, Griffiths, p. 9

Question 19

How many years ago was the Pliohippus horse?

Answer 19

12 million years ago

Source: Equine Science, Griffiths, p. 9

Question 20

How many years ago was the Equus horse?

Answer 20

1 million years ago

Source: Equine Science, Griffiths, p. 9

Question 21

The horse had it’s beginning how many years ago?

Answer 21

58 million years ago

Source: Horse Science (National 4-H Council), p. 4